Kogia sima Owen 1866
Kogia sima Owen 1866 Kogia sima Owen 1866, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 6 (1): 30. Type Locality: India, Andhra Pradesh (= Madras Presidency), "taken at Waltair". Vernacular Names: Dwarf Sperm Whale. Distribution: Worldwide: warm-temperate to tropical waters, occasionally strands in cold-tempe...
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| Summary: | Kogia sima Owen 1866 Kogia sima Owen 1866, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 6 (1): 30. Type Locality: India, Andhra Pradesh (= Madras Presidency), "taken at Waltair". Vernacular Names: Dwarf Sperm Whale. Distribution: Worldwide: warm-temperate to tropical waters, occasionally strands in cold-temperate areas. Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Reviewed by Nagorsen (1985, Mammalian Species, 239) and Caldwell and Caldwell (1989). The specific name simus. -a, -um is a Latin adjectival form and has to agree in gender with the generic name Kogia (Rice, 1998:84). Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, pp. 723-743 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 737, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 |
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